. /.  WORLD TRADE  
ORGANIZATION  G/TBT/N/CRI/81 
1 August 2008 
 (08-3653) 
Committee on Technical Barriers to Trade Original:   Spanish 
   
NOTIFICATION 
 
The following notification is being circ ulated in accordance with Article 10.6. 
 
1. Member to Agreement notifying:   COSTA RICA
 
If applicable, name of local government involved (Articles 3.2 and 7.2):    
2. Agency responsible:  
Ministerio de Economía, Industria y Comercio , MEIC (Ministry of the Economy, Industry 
and Trade) 
Dirección de Mejora Regulatoria y Reglamentación Técnica  (Regulatory Improvement and 
Technical Regulation Directorate) 
Tel.: +(506) 2235-2700, ext. 221 
Fax: +(506) 2297-1439  
Name and address (including telephone and fax numbers, E-mail and website addresses, 
if available) of  agency or authority designated to handle comments regarding the 
notification shall be indicated if different from above:  
TBT Enquiry Point 
Ministry of the Economy, Industry and Trade, MEIC Apartado Postal 10216-1000, San José Tel.:  (+506) 2235-2700, ext. 221 Fax:  (+506) 2297-1439 E-mail:  crotc@meic.go.cr
 
Web site: www.reglatec.go.cr  
3. Notified under Article 2.9.2 [  X ], 2.10.1 [   ], 5.6.2 [   ], 5.7.1 [   ], other:    
4. Products covered (HS or CCCN where applicable, otherwise national tariff heading.
ICS numbers may be provided in addition, where applicable):   International 
Classification for Standards (ICS) Code 67.100 
5. Title, number of pages and language(s) of the notified document:   RTCR 412:2008:  
Crema láctea (nata) y crema láctea ácida y fermentada (natilla) para consumo directo  
(Costa Rican Technical Regulation (RTCR) No. 412:2008:  Dairy cream and acidified or 
fermented dairy cream for direct consumption) (17 pages, in Spanish). 
6. Description of content:   The purpose of the notified Regulation is to define the requirements 
for dairy cream and acidified or fermented dairy cream for direct consumption.  It applies to 
cream, semi-cream, whipping cream, whipped cream and double cream, whether or not subjected to pasteurization, sterilization, UHT (ultr a heat treatment) or ultra pasteurization.  It 
also applies to acidified products that meet the above descriptions. 
7. Objective and rationale, including the nature of urgent problems where applicable:   
 Protection of human life and hea lth, and consumer information.  G/TBT/N/CRI/81 
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8. Relevant documents:  
Decreto Ejecutivo  (Executive Decree) No. 22268-MEIC , Costa Rican Standard (NCR) 
No. 148:1993:  Metrología:  contenido ne to de productos preempacados  (Metrology:  net 
contents of pre-packaged products) a nd amendments thereto, published in La Gaceta  
(Official Journal) No. 132 of 13 July 1993. 
Executive Decree No. 23355-MEIC, Costa Rican Standard (NCR) No. 26:1994:  Metrología 
Sistema Internacional de Unidades (SI)  (Metrology, international system of units) and 
amendments thereto, published in Official Journal No. 114 of 15 June 1994. 
Executive Decree No. 26012-MEIC, Costa Rican Technical Regulation (RTCR) 
No. 100:1997:  Etiquetado de los Alimentos Preenvasados  (Labelling of pre-packaged foods) 
and amendments thereto, published in O fficial Journal No. 91 of 14 May 1997. 
Executive Decree No. 30256-MEIC-S, Cost a Rican Technical Regulation (RTCR) 
No. 135:2002:  Etiquetado Nutricional de los Alimentos Preenvasados  (Nutrition labelling of 
pre-packaged foods) and amendments thereto,  published in Official Journal No. 71 of 
15 April 2002. 
Executive Decree No. 31595-S:  Reglamento de Notificación de Materias Primas, Registro 
Sanitario, Importación, Desalmacen aje y Vigilancia de Alimentos  (Regulation on the 
notification of raw materials and the sanitary registration, importation, customs clearance and monitoring of foodstuffs) and amendments thereto, published in Official Journal No. 16 of 23 
January 2004. 
Executive Decree No. 33288-MEIC-MAG-S, Costa Rican Technical Regulation (RTCR) No. 
395:2006:  Para el Uso de Términos Lecheras  (Use of dairy terms) and amendments thereto, 
published in Official Journa l No. 164 of 28 August 2006. 
Executive Decree No. 33371-COMEX-MEIC.  Resolution No. 168-2006 (COMIECO 
XLIX):  Central American Technical Regulation (RTCA) No. 01.01.11:06:  Cantidad de 
Producto en Preempacados  (Quantity of product in pre-pack ages) and amendments thereto, 
published in Official Journal No. 194 of 10 October 2006. 
Executive Decree No. 33812 MEIC-MAG-S, Costa Rican Technical Regulation (RTCR) No. 
401-2006:  Leche cruda y leche higienizada  (Raw milk and processed milk) and amendments 
thereto, published in Official Journal No. 112 of 12 June 2007. 
9. Proposed date of adoption: 
Proposed date of entry into force:   Upon publication in the Official Journal. 
Six months after publication in the Official Journal. 
10. Final date for comments:   60 days as from the date of notification. 
11. Texts available from:  National enquiry point [  X ] or address, telephone and fax 
numbers, E-mail and web-site addresses, if available, of other body: 
TBT Enquiry Point 
San José, Costa Rica E-mail: crotc@meic.go.cr
 
Web site: http://www.reglatec.go.cr  
Tel.:  (+506) 2235-2700, ext. 221 
Fax:  (+506) 2297-1439 or 2236-7192 
The full text of the draft Regulation is available online at: 
http://www.reglatec.go.cr/propuestas/RTNatillaOMC.pdf  and  
http://members.wto.org/crnatt achments/2008/tbt/cri/08_2262_00_s.pdf